Frequently Asked Questions

Umbraco is an open-source Content Management System (CMS) for creating, managing, and sharing your content easily on the web. It is written in C# and deployed on Microsoft based infrastructure. The fact that Umbraco is proven, stable and scalable make it a firm favourite amongst developers and designers.

A uSkinned “Theme” is a design which comes fully integrated with a ready-to-use starter kit. When installed you get a fully functioning website (design, layout and CMS integration) seamlessly on top of the Umbraco CMS. You can then use the website as is, or you can customise it to meet your project requirements.

Once you have installed Umbraco on your site, it's really very simple. It’s a matter of installing our theme packages into your Umbraco install.

Our installer script will automatically unpack all of the design, layout and content structures as well as all the end-user functionality into your CMS install – with just a few clicks of your mouse you have a fully featured website ready to customise and populate with content.

Clear step-by-step installation instructions are outlined in our install guide. There’s also a video where you can watch ‘over our shoulder’ as we install a skin.

The beauty of Umbraco is it is extensible and extendable to your hearts desire. That doesn’t change when you use uSkinned. If you are a developer and you want to add functionality then there are no restrictions to coding and integrating your own customisations with our themes – it’s the same as any other Umbraco install.

In terms of changing the look, feel and design. This is also very straightforward. Nothing is locked down so just jump right into the html or CSS and tweak anything you wish.

In fact, uSkinned is a designers dream. You can now have a fully featured Umbraco site for your client, without the need to do any server side coding. With our Starter Kits out-of-the-box features we’ve built all the functionality you need, leaving you to go to create your own beautiful design on top of our starter kit.

Finally, many customisations of your uSkinned theme can occur without the need to touch any code. We have a host of configuration options within the CMS admin that enable you to change layout’s, define content structures and optimise content so for most of the time, you may find you don’t even need to get your hands dirty.